US Patent Issued to NBCUniversal Media on Feb. 25 for "System and method for automatic digital copy for physical media purchase" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,936, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to NBCUniversal Media LLC (New York).

"System and method for automatic digital copy for physical media purchase" was invented by Alan Char (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nick Brailas (San Jose, Calif.), Anthony Marcar (San Francisco), Michael Ye (Palo Alto, Calif.), Oleksiy Kokhanyy (Mountain View, Calif.) and Hua Li (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform acts of receiving a unique identifier from a user, where...